Painting
- Title:
- Mary (Polly) Cate Ward
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1973.040.02
- Creator:
- Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874)
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Littleton, NH / Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1850
- Description:
- Portrait of Mary (Polly) Cate Ward (1788-1874), attributed to Walter Ingalls (1805-1874), 1850. Oil on canvas. Half-length portrait of a woman, facing viewer. Sitter has center-parted black hair, gray eyes. She is wearing square metal-frame glasses, a white sheer cap tied under chin, black dress with pleated bodice, lace collar, and blue ribbon tied under collar. Graduated brown background. Unsigned. Gilded gesso over molded wood frame.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-26 W-22.25 inches
- Provenance:
- Florence-Gene Ward Orr, the donor, was a descendant of Richard and Mary Ann (Ingalls) Ward.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley W. Orr
- People:
- Ward, Mary Cate (1788-1874), Ingalls, Walter (1805-1874), Orr, Florence G. (1910-2011), Orr, Dudley W. (1907-2002)
- Subjects:
- Ward, Polly Cate, Portrait paintings, Portraits, Portraiture
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